Financial planning

Understanding how gifted money will impact the student’s FASFA is critical.

After months of talk of steep tax increases on the wealthy, a kinder reality has emerged for well-off clients.

Amid the pandemic, staying informed about life insurance strategies with trusts and estates is critical.

Democrats, unable to gain traction on taxes that affect only the ultra wealthy, have turned to trusts as little as $200k.

There is little doubt that growing and protecting wealth is a critical pillar in everyone's financial plan. But what about maintaining and improving your health?

The wealth management business is undergoing considerable transformation. The pandemic has created a new breed of investors, with distinct expectations and tastes formed by new technology and having lived through the financial crisis.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement.

Any type of unreimbursed long-term care expense, be it for a mental or physical impairment, can completely ruin a client’s personal and retirement plans.

Results published Monday show that 46% of White people are working with professionals to plan their finances, while 38% of African Americans, 36% of Asian respondents and 44% of Hispanic people are doing the same.

An in-depth look at the provisions being considered for the new legislation.

Even professionals such as accountants and attorneys who may serve as trustees are unaware of the numerous risks that life insurance policies carry.

Join Financial Planning's Editor-in-Chief, Chana Schoenberger, Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger, industry luminary Mark Tibergien and financial advisor Dasarte Yarnway as they discuss the profound changes the financial advisory sector is undergoing.

The LearnLux scholarship will be awarded annually and provide recipients with the guidance, resources and tools necessary to pass the CFP exam within 19 months.

Advisors share a tax trick that allows professionals to build seven-figure retirement plans.

It’s important to have intergenerational conversations with clients and their families.

A conversation with Penny Pennington, manager partner at Edward Jones.

Securities-based lending is up sharply as wealthy investors leverage gains in their stock portfolios into low-interest loans for pricey purchases.

While the bank’s second-quarter earnings disappointed, wealth management services, driven by Merrill Lynch, were a bright spot.

The company is buying financial-literacy startup PayGrade, which makes a virtual banking and investing product used by K-12 schools.